Author | Zhou Zhi Yu Wei Ming Xuan

In less than 4 months, over 30 versions have been iterated, and Li Auto is speeding up on the journey of end-to-end smart driving.

According to reports from Wall Street, on November 18, Li Auto officially launched its end-to-end intelligent driving experience day. The true capabilities of end-to-end + VLM were fully showcased through park trails, urban roads, and highways.

Vehicles upgraded to OTA version 6.5 can easily handle narrow community roads, roundabouts, U-turns, or complex construction scenes, and also support nationwide highway toll stations' ETC for autonomous passage, automatically matching the navigation destination with the AVP valet parking route, truly achieving a seamless experience.

The test drive event also showcased Li Auto's industry-leading AEB and the innovative AES automatic emergency steering function. The OTA 6.5 version particularly upgraded backward active safety capabilities, developing backward AEB (automatic emergency braking) and backward MAI (misacceleration suppression) functions. After the upgrade, Li Auto's active safety capabilities will cover all directional areas.

By the end of November, 'space to space' will be pushed to all AD Max users of Li Auto with the OTA 6.5 version vehicle system, truly achieving a seamless smart driving experience.

Li Auto's end-to-end + VLM is a new generation smart driving solution, truly an end-to-end structure with One Model, and the first to deploy the visual language model VLM on the vehicle chip in a dual-system solution.

Since the announcement of the end-to-end + VLM early bird program in July, and the announcement of the latest progress at the Guangzhou Auto Show, Ideal has been rapidly iterating on the end-to-end model.

During a technical sharing session, Ideal's engineers revealed that this model has seen 25 version iterations in two months, with an efficient update rate of two versions per week, which is rare in the current competitive autos industry.

According to Wall Street News, as of November 13, Ideal's autonomous driving cumulative mileage has reached 2.67 billion kilometers, an increase of 123% compared to the end of last year, with the number of proactive safety avoidance incidents exceeding 3.6 million. This indicates that Ideal's autonomous driving is making rapid progress and is widely deployed, allowing it to compete with Tesla in the same tier.

The improvement of autonomous driving capabilities has also become an important consideration for many consumers when choosing Ideal models. Currently, the daily active user increase for Ideal's city NOA has surpassed 32%; among models priced above 0.3 million, AD Max's sales share has reached 70%, and among models priced over 0.4 million, this ratio has even soared to 80%.

While enhancing user experience, intelligent driving technology has positively impacted Ideal's sales structure. Particularly in the sales of high stock price models, AD Max's sales share has significantly increased.

In the past, Ideal was notably recognized for valuing family users. Intelligent driving is expected to become Ideal's next competitive advantage, accelerating its journey towards becoming an industry giant in the second half of the new energy fund era.